Description:

Profiling, i.e. determinating most time consuming execution parts,
is an important last step when developing applications.
KProf is a visual tool for developers, which displays the execution
profiling output generated by code profilers. The output of profilers
being usually difficult to read (beyond the flat profile information),
KProf presents the information in list- or tree-views that make the
information very easy to understand.

KProf provides access to the following features:

* Flat profile view displays all function / methods and their
profiling information.
* Hierarchical profile view displays a tree for each function /
method with the other functions / methods it calls as subelements.
* Object profile view, for C++ developers, groups the methods in a
tree view by object name.
* Graph view is a graphical representation of the call-tree,
requires GraphViz to work.
* Method view is a more detailed look at an individual method -
cross referenced.
* Recursive functions carry a special icon to clearly show that they
are recursive.
* Right-clicking a function or method displays a pop-up with the
list of callers and called functions. You can directly go to one
of these functions by selecting it in the pop-up menu.
* The flat profile view provides an additional filter edit box to
filter the display and show only the functions or methods
containing the text that you enter.
* Function parameters hiding if the function name is unique (i.e.
no different signatures)
* C++ template abbreviation (template parameters can be hidden)
* Automatic generation of call-graph data for GraphViz and VCG
* Diff mode support to compare two profile results.